The other two proposals are that a sideline kick must go forward unless it is taken from inside the opposition’s 13-metre line and that a kick-out has to travel beyond the 45-metre line, with
both teams resetting to the traditional format to contest it.

They could be trialled in next year’s league campaign if GAA chiefs give them the green light.

The new rules would see a restriction on the number of consecutive hand passes allowed

“So we won’t know until a few of them are trialled — but my initial thoughts were just that they were pretty bad ideas.

“I don’t know how much kind of thought went into them or was there any kind of ­consultation process.

“But I just don’t see what they are trying to achieve or what it’s going to do.

“It is going to change the game in so many ways — if they were all introduced. Now, I know it’s unlikely they would all be implemented but it would just be a completely different game if all those were brought in.

“I would be ­completely against them.”

As an attacker, ­Mannion could benefit from the inside mark.

And while he can see some merits in that change, he remains steadfastly against the alterations in general.

The Kilmacud Crokes star — whose side face St Jude’s in the Dublin SFC final on October 29 — added: “That’s probably the only one that I think maybe it might work.

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“So I suppose seeing if it’s trialled and how it works out, it could turn out to be a good idea.”

And Mannion has reservations about the sin-bin’s merits.

The hitman said: “You could have situations now where if a sin-bin is brought in, teams will completely shut up shop for ten minutes and do everything they can to just waste time and it’ll turn out to be worse again.